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Apple, Google reject criticism of app store fees in Australian inquiry submissions

By Laurel Henning and James Panichi ( November 17, 2020, 07:14 GMT | Insight) -- Apple’s 30 percent commission on sales through its App Store is set at a level that is appropriate and that enables the company to “realize a return on its investment and to make millions of free apps available to consumers,” the company has told an Australian inquiry. Apple and Google’s submission to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s inquiry into app stores argue that the fee is necessary to uphold the stores’ standards and security. Apple’s 30 percent commission on sales through its App Store is set at a level that is appropriate and that enables the company to “realize a return on its investment and to make millions of free apps available to consumers,” the company has told an Australian inquiry....

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